Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] more [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We see no reason why the word should seem strange for more than a short time . |
| 2 | ‘ I doubt if Aldhelm would have lain helpless for more than a quarter of an hour from that blow on the head . |
| 3 | Hardly enough to keep a man alive for more than a month or two . |
| 4 | Turkish diplomats say they 're hopeful the couple will be freed unharmed after more than a week in captivity . |
| 5 | Over-50s are excluded from the two groups to whom resources are directed : 18-to-24 year olds who have been unemployed for at least six months ; and 25-to-50 year olds unemployed for more than a year . |
| 6 | There is a great deal of prejudice about age , with the result that the older you are the more likely you are to remain unemployed for more than a year . |
| 7 | In April 1972 , the proportion unemployed for more than a year accounted for one-sixth of the total unemployed ; by April 1981 , the proportion had risen to one-fifth . |
| 8 | Since 1950 the number of those unemployed for more than a year has increased from 34,000 to more than a million at the start of this year . |
| 9 | THE NUMBER of people unemployed for more than a year passed the one million mark yesterday . |
| 10 | Only a few of the Christian residents appeared to notice that the Syrians had come prepared for more than just a few days ' stay . |
| 11 | There are 5,733 empty council houses , almost 2,000 of which have been empty for more than a year . |
| 12 | We shall continue to put pressure on local authorities with stock that has been empty for more than a year . |
| 13 | He rightly points out that — apart from Brent , which has no overall control , and Tower Hamlets , which is controlled by the Liberal Democrats — the 10 authorities with the highest percentage of empties in their stock are Labour controlled , and about 20,000 properties have been left empty for more than a year . |
| 14 | Quinn said : ‘ I 'm not interested in more than a month on loan here . |
| 15 | You do n't have to be a star , you do n't have to be rich , you just have to know what you 're about , you have to have a point of view in life , and what I 'm interested in more than anything else , is an exchange , being able to talk to somebody . |
| 16 | Readers interested in more than the bare formula of a dish will appreciate the charming , simple and well explained recipe below . |
| 17 | The profit diagrams for options ( Figs 7.5 and 7.6 ) are a little more complex than those for securities as the profit is dependent on more than just the share price at expiry ( S ) . |
| 18 | The writing of a biography is simply impossible for more than a few major churchmen and even fewer secular rulers in the early Middle Ages . |
| 19 | The language had to be one accessible to more than the ruling elite , so it became one or other dialect of the vernacular . |
| 20 | Fokine wanted to make dance rhythm visible by more than just marking the beats . |
| 21 | The Soviet Union has now been a socialist state for more than sixty years : many countries in Western Europe have been socialist for more than a quarter century ; and Asia has not only the Chinese experiment in socialism but other countries in Asia , Africa and the Americas have experimented with socialism . |
| 22 | TOWARDS the end of her life my mother was in hospital , a victim of Alzheimer 's Disease , a severe diabetic , unable to walk and increasingly unable to remain conscious for more than a few minutes at a time . |
| 23 | It 's been women-only for more than a century . |
| 24 | No molecule of our body survives unchanged for more than a few weeks or months ; over that period , even in adults , it is synthesized , plays its part in the cellular economy , and is then discarded , broken down and replaced by another more or less identical . |
| 25 | If this were the case , then the implications for our society would be enormous and worthy of more than passing comment . |
| 26 | If Helen Dobson 's achievement in doing the double of British Match and Stroke-Play titles detracted from everything else , on performance worthy of more than a passing mention was a final day for Julie Hall which took in rounds of 69 and 71 . |
| 27 | Hair is shiny and sophisticated with more than a touch of class ! |
| 28 | Equally importantly , those which were remembered appear to have been unusual in more than the fact that they were busier than other situations , risk appears to have had a quite separate effect . |
| 29 | The moral vocabulary of these accusations against sentimentality , leniency and crinolined philanthropy that unfolded in the wake of the great legislative transformations of this era is one which we would find entirely familiar in our own historical time , and which has rolled down to us virtually unchanged across more than a century of resistance to penal reform . |
| 30 | Only the wealthier trusts could afford his standards , but if they did so they purchased a road good for more than a century . |